{"id":375283,"date":"2026-03-31T21:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/375283\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T21:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:03:09","slug":"pivotal-irish-wine-trader-and-reggae-radio-host-dies-aged-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/375283\/","title":{"rendered":"Pivotal Irish wine trader and reggae radio host dies aged 63"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The late Ian Lacey, formerly of Bray, Co Wicklow.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/a597fcf8-07b0-4566-a86c-6d0faebb5e30.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The late Ian Lacey, formerly of Bray, Co Wicklow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Wicklow man Ian Lacey, who built a career in Ireland\u2019s wine trade and as a beloved figure in reggae radio broadcasting, has died aged 63, having been described as \u201cone of the pioneers of the modern wine trade\u201d and \u201can innovator in specialist radio music programming\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A father of three, who was predeceased by his former wife Patricia, Ian was known to radio listeners as \u2018John Public\u2019 through his Jamaican music programme Black Echoes, which aired across RT\u00c9 2fm, BLB, Horizon, DLR, Hits 106, Jazz FM and Dublin City FM over a period spanning almost 40 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The late Ian Lacey, formerly of Bray, Co Wicklow. Wicklow man Ian Lacey, who built a career in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,5718,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-375283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-eoin-mac-raghnaill","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}